United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit located in Seattle, WA is recruiting for an Assistant Divisional Deputy Clerk. Please visit our Career Portal for more information: https://lnkd.in/gAVBxMNC #recruiting #judiciary #hiring #openposition #jobopportunity

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit will hear oral arguments during a special sitting on November 20 at the University of Washington School of Law, in conjunction with the court’s weeklong sitting at the William K. Nakamura U.S. Courthouse in Seattle. Read the full release: https://lnkd.in/gKMcFh4q  The three-judge panel will hear oral arguments that will be livestreamed and begin at 1 p.m. PST. in the law school’s Rembe Courtroom (Room 133), Gates Hall, 4293 Memorial Way NE. A valid photo ID is required for admittance. Cases on the docket are:  USA v. Nomee, an appeal from denial of suppression motion in a case in which the defendant entered a conditional guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm; Case No. 23-4262 • USA v. Cox, an appeal from the denial of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion seeking to set aside a conviction for conspiracy to murder federal officers and employees; and Case No. 23-2713 • USA v. Multistar Industries, Inc., an appeal of a judgment in favor of the United States in the Environmental Protection Agency’s civil action against Multistar Industries, Inc., asserting violations of the Clean Air Act and failure to comply with the requirements of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. Case No. 23-3765.    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit hears appeals of cases decided by certain executive branch agencies and federal trial courts in nine western states and two Pacific island jurisdictions. The court meets monthly in San Francisco and Pasadena, California; with regular sittings in Seattle and Portland, Oregon; as well as special sittings at other federal courthouses in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Honolulu and Anchorage, Alaska. A list of oral argument dates and locations is available online at https://lnkd.in/ebN5RAk3

The Ninth Circuit will present two free CLE programs this month, each co-sponsored by the local Federal Bar Association. The first will take place at the James R. Browning Courthouse in San Francisco on November 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM, and the second will be held at the William K. Nakamura Courthouse in Seattle on November 21, 2024 at 2:30 PM. Both programs will be followed by a reception. Click here for more information about the San Francisco program https://lnkd.in/gp3vyBX9 and here for the Seattle program https://lnkd.in/gwM4ibAi. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit located in San Francisco, CA is recruiting for a Case Administrator. Please visit our Career Portal for more information: https://lnkd.in/ge2N_biz #recruiting #judiciary #hiring #openposition #jobopportunity

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit located in Pasadena, CA is recruiting for a Space & Facilities Assistant. Please visit our Career Portal for more information: https://lnkd.in/gEx2U7X4 #judiciary #recruiting #hiring #openposition #jobopportunity

Hon. Diane J. Humetewa, the first Native American woman and the first enrolled tribal member to serve as a U.S. federal judge, will deliver the 145th Justice Jackson Lecture on Oct. 18. The title of her Justice Jackson Lecture, which is presented twice each year, is “Reposing the Public’s Special Trust and Confidence in Your Wisdom, Uprightness & Learning: A Discussion about Instilling and Maintaining Confidence in Our Courts.” The lecture will be livestreamed for those who register in advance: https://lnkd.in/erycZ4Y8 Humetewa has served as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona since 2014.

Federal Public Defender Cuauhtémoc Ortega, Central District of California, has been reappointed to a second four-year term. He was first appointed to lead the office in 2020 and his reappointment is effective Oct. 15, 2024. See the full release: https://lnkd.in/gEgDuuM8 “Cuauhtémoc Ortega has demonstrated remarkable leadership in his first term as head of the nation’s largest federal defender office,” said Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw, who chairs the Ninth Circuit’s Standing Committee on Federal Public Defenders. “He came on board at the height of the pandemic and collaborated with other stakeholders to overcome substantial challenges. Mr. Ortega has met the highest standards our court expects of its Defenders, and we fully support his reappointment. Ortega began working in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California in 2010 as a line deputy in the Orange County Division, where he represented clients charged with a broad range of federal offenses. In 2016, after a short stint in private practice, he returned to the FPD’s office as a supervisor in the Los Angeles Division’s Trial Unit. In 2019, he was promoted to chief deputy and divided his time between administrative responsibilities, supervision, collaboration with other agencies in the district and client representation. Ortega received his Bachelor of Arts in political science in 2003 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he worked for the Daily Bruin and served as its editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2003. After UCLA, Ortega interned at The New York Times then attended Columbia Law School, where he served as the executive articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and graduated in 2007. The Office of the Federal Public Defender was created by Congress to fulfill the constitutional requirement that financially eligible individuals charged with crimes in the federal justice system be provided with professional legal representation at no cost. Reappointment to additional terms is based on a comprehensive evaluation of the federal public defender’s performance, including an invitation for public comment.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit will hear oral arguments during a special sitting on October 18 at the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Read the full release: https://lnkd.in/gKBXyuuj The three-judge panel will hear oral arguments that will be livestreamed and begin at 9:30 a.m. MDT in the Centennial Courtroom of the Bonneville County Courthouse. A valid photo ID is required for admittance. Cases on the docket are: • Johnson v. Gentry, in which an Idaho prisoner appeals the denial of her habeas corpus petition challenging her life sentences for two counts of first-degree murder. Case No. 23-2124 • USA v. Alizadah Nawai, an appeal from conviction for attempted coercion and enticement, sexual exploitation of a minor child, and transfer of obscene matter to a minor. Case No. 23-2523. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit hears appeals of cases decided by certain executive branch agencies and federal trial courts in nine western states and two Pacific island jurisdictions. The court meets monthly in San Francisco and Pasadena, California; with regular sittings in Seattle and Portland, Oregon; as well as special sittings at other federal courthouses in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Honolulu and Anchorage, Alaska. A list of oral argument dates and locations is available online at https://lnkd.in/ebN5RAk3.  

The U.S. Courts have just released a new video about the landmark California school desegregation case Mendez v. Westminster. This important trial, held in 1945, helped pave the way for the Brown v. Board of Education trial, held in 1954, that opened schoolhouse doors to people of color around the country, changing the lives of millions of school children for the better. Please watch this moving video. https://lnkd.in/gqnhC8QJ

Chief Bankruptcy Judge Stephen L. Johnson, of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, has been reappointed to a second 14-year term effective Oct. 13, 2024. Read the full release, here. https://lnkd.in/e69isCpb Judge Johnson was first appointed to the Northern District bankruptcy bench in 2010 and was appointed as chief judge of his court on Jan. 1, 2023. Previously, he was an assistant U.S. attorney, from 2002 to 2010, for the Northern District of California, where he handled civil matters, including representing the interests of the U.S. and its agencies in cases filed in the bankruptcy courts. From 1995 to 2002, Judge Johnson was a trial attorney in the Office of the U.S. Trustee in San Francisco, where he litigated consumer and business bankruptcy proceedings. Prior to that, he worked for local law firms, including Morrison & Foerster.  A San Francisco native, Judge Johnson received his Bachelor of Science from the University of San Francisco in 1983 and his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (now U.C. Law San Francisco), in 1989. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California reported 4,883 bankruptcy filings in calendar year 2023. Bankruptcy judges serve a 14-year renewable term and handle all bankruptcy-related matters under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.